NAAAP Kansas City Experts.

Get some curated hot spots from our own members.

Sometimes going through a whole list of restaurants and places to visit could be very overwhelming. We thought we would start with a few curated lists directly from our NAAAP-KC members. They’re sorted by time of day or types of experience, with a few bonus activity suggestions. If you have any questions, ping them on their social media!

Exclusive Private Screening of The Farewell with Special Guest, Actor Tzi Ma

A Leadership Convention add-on event

Places to visit for Leadership Convention attendees.

Curated by Helen Jorski, a local KC leader from Bank of America. 

Your hotel & convention is at the Westin, which is near Union Station and Crown Center (it’s a shopping mall). While it is not “Downtown”, it is fairly close, but there’s not a whole lot in the immediate surrounding area i.e. you won’t walk out of your hotel to see bright lights, it’s a slightly longer walk or a short ride on the Ride KC streetcar, which runs along Main St. It is new, clean, and free – picks you up at Union Station and will take you to the 1) Crossroads, 2) Downtown (where our office is and Power & Light District), and 3) the River Market.  Two other popular areas to visit with a lot of bars, restaurants and shopping are Westport (nightlife) and Country Club Plaza.  Both are ~10-15 minute drives from your hotel.

Kiddos:

Near hotel

• Science City at Union Station – walking distance to Westin.  There is also a miniature train room, but also Science City, a really fun kidseum and outdoor play area
• Legoland and Discovery Center – also walking distance to Westin – fun, but small and indoors compared to other Legolands in KC
• Kaleidoscope – very close to hotel in Crown Center – kids make art with leftover materials from Hallmark
• Betty Rae’s Ice Cream in the River Market – kids LOVE the Streetcar: take the Streetcar from Union Station and go to the River Market – fun to walk around and get ice cream
• Farmer’s Market – at the River Market on Saturday mornings – take the Streetcar
• Penn Valley Park (where WWI Memorial is)
• Sheila Kemper Dietrich Park – has a playground but is under construction

Not far from hotel but requires a vehicle

• Nelson Atkins Museum – short ride/drive, and has a new miniature golf exhibit on its exterior grounds – the museum itself is free and kids can hang out here
• Kansas City Zoo – not too far but requires a car/Uber to get to – can easily spend a full day here
• Loose Park – really nice playground and in the Brookside neighborhood, where it’s more kid friendly

Suburbia

• Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead
• Other fun things like Urban Aire (trampoline park), rock climbing gyms, Main Event, Dave & Busters, Chuck E Cheese.

Kansas City Asian artists.

In partnership with ArtsKC and curated by the NAAAP Kansas City.

ArtsKC in partnership with The National Association of Asian American Professionals of Kansas City celebrates Kansas City’s selection as host city for NAAAP’s National Leadership Convention from Thursday, August 22nd through Saturday, August 24th with a group exhibition of Kansas City-based Asian American visual artists Nanci Lee Ayala, Flora Chang, Ben Lee, David Moore, Suba Nadarajah & Michael Ong.

In exploring the NAAAP Leadership Convention’s theme of The Unconventional Leader, “Multifaceted” explores the plurality of identity we possess as human beings, particularly those from marginalized or ethnic backgrounds. Bucking the stereotype of the dry and self-serious model minority, the Asian American artists of “Multifaceted” show the eclectic range of their personalities: the outsider and the accepted, the traditional and iconoclastic, the business-minded and renegade, the disciplined and the whimsical.

ArtsKC and NAAAP-KC invite you to visit The ArtsKC Gallery for the “Multifaceted” exhibition that will run through September 30th, 2019.

Address:

106 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64108

Contact Information:

Phone: (816) 221-1777
Email: TheArtsCouncil@ArtsKC.org

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